Can you go back in our history to see how/when this trend started?
Imagine during WWII, American corporations exporting jobs to make more money for themselves...at the expense of Americans...during a time of war.
Just when did patriotism morph into making money with no personal sacrifice to the country and done at any cost to America's present and future as being the highest virtue?
For that brief moment following 9/11, the majority of Americans put aside their petty partisan thinking and understood that we had a common problem.
How was the problem dealt with?
By cutting revenues and increasing spending, by making self sacrifice for the good of the country
only the job of the all volunteer army, etc?
The Iraq and Afghanistan war profiteering were/are unbridled.
The madness of increasing spending and cutting revenues is not a new phenomena. Go back to when this economic insanity began.
Why is it that people don't understand that Red China is still Red...is it because they get to buy cheap shit at Wal Mart?
American pride? American pride in country is gone, only lip service remains...wearing a flag pin, and cheating on taxes, exporting jobs, partisan distractions and blaming...
People are proud of their wealth...and this is a supposedly a Christian country? Jesus Christ would be happy with his followers worshiping the almighty dollar?
Anyone who is willing to put their reasoned mind first can see that America is precisely where we are because of both ideologies, left and right. Corruption and greed became a celebrated virtue during the Reagan years, with Gordon Gecko becoming the new American idol.
The tragic truth is that we have common problems as Americans...yet we treat them as if the problems are the fault only of the party in power...completely abdicating personal responsibility and true patriotism and love of country in the process.
This from someone who was one of the loudest critics of Obama during his run for the presidency.
However, Obama is not the only one to blame...not until the American people take full responsibility for their duly elected representatives will we begin to get qualified responsible leadership.
...and no, Reagan was not the solution. Anyone who looks deeply into the facts can see that the real beginning of the current decline came with the entrance of Reagan, following the ineptitude of Carter...
Best time in America?
Post WWII, when America had a strong balance between corporations and labor unions, between government and private enterprise.
It is always the balance of power, either in the political or economic environment that brings the greatest advance of America as a whole...
Quote from jem:
As long as a poster realizes that 90% of republicans and democrats are willing to sell out their country of lobbying money, does it really matter if Jon Stewart makes one side or the other look stupid.
its kind of like what prosecutors do, to criminals -- they over charge them figuring they will plea out to what they really did. (by the way I do not support that practice).
We know that dems and republicans are corrupt. So what if Stewart got this one wrong.
The democrats got porkulous, the continued bank bail out oversight of the Fed, financial regulation and health care wrong. The republicans got pretty much 8 years of Bush wrong.
We let china get copper mining contracts in Afghanistan... we spend billions in Iraq without oil revenues...
is their anything Congress does for the majority of Americans... ever? They can't even set up unemployment correctly. All they have to do is have benefits decrease over time.
Both parties are being bought by special interests. Until we get rid of lobbying money, we will keep getting sold out by the traitors on the hill. And I use that word without and any hyperbole. I am firmly convinced those bastards betray the people for campaign money 90% of the time.
